Judging by Pamela Anderson’s post-New York City Marathon tweet, we have a feeling she’ll hire a coach next time. Congrats, Pamela, on your marathon finish! Now we need to have a word with you about your, um, training regimen. More than 50,000 runners hit the starting line at yesterday’s New York City Marathon—and among them was blond, buff, pixie-cut Pamela Anderson. The former Baywatch babe crossed the finish line in five hours and 41 minutes. She later tweeted a photo of herself stretched out on a bed with an ice bag on her knee and another on her groin. The caption summed it all up: “Ouch!”

We’re super proud of you Pamela; marathons require physical and mental toughness (case in point: 8 tips for running a marathon). But we can’t let it go: your pain and agony post-race might just be the result of your lack of proper training beforehand. Pamela copped to skimping on training back in September, in an interview with the New York Daily News. “I really haven’t attacked the running thing,” she said, six weeks before race day, adding that her training consisted of Stairmaster and elliptical sessions, which she then stepped up to 5- to 10-mile runs. “My legs feel strong ... I feel like a lean machine,” she said. “I know people have training diaries and intense trainers. I’m just moving my body as much as I can.”

But that’s not enough conditioning to ward off major bodily harm. “A novice runner entering her first marathon should start going on long training runs six months beforehand, to build her aerobic capacity and muscles, and then increase her mileage 10 to 20 percent each week until she’s able to tackle at least 20 miles at a time,” says Susan Paul, exercise physiologist and program director for the Orlando Track Shack Foundation. “Otherwise, you risk all kinds of serious injuries, from kidney damage to tears in your Achilles tendon or hamstring severe enough to prevent you from ever being active again.” Good advice to follow, Pam, if you feel like tackling the Ironman next.